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. , ' ** •• —■ ——-■ 010 SERIES—*OI. XCI. NEW SERIES —WOL. XL. TERMS. f IK DAILY CHRONICLE * SENTINEL, the oldest newspaper in the South, is published diilr, except Monday. Terms : Per year, $lO : six months, 95; three months, 92 60. THE WEEKLY IHRONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, 92; six months, 91. THE TRI-WEEKLY CHBONICLE & SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Terms : Oue year, 95; six months, 92 50. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all cases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. BATEB OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 91 per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly. 91 per equsre; in Weekly. 91 per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices. 91 each. Sp-ciai Notices, 91 per square. Special rates will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will l charged at the rate of twenty cents ner line All announce ments most be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WEIGHT, CHRmnci.r. A Bewtixet.. Angusta. Ga. Ctjromcle and Sentinel WEDNESDAY JULY 5, 1876. r . '■ Mat God bless Georgia, and may His wisdom direct the deliberations of her guardians.— Hssscatx V. Jobs sox. A prayer that is eohoed by every true and faithful son of this grand ol<^Com mon wealth. -*■" Coi,, John 8. Mosby, who was a straight-oat leader in 1872 and too good a Democrat to vote for Greeley, has an nounced his purpose to support Hayes and Wheeler. Fatty Harris has written a letter to the Cincinnati Oazette, describing a col ored baptizing scene. Fatty should employ his leisure in telling how he or ganized the Bullock Legislature, and how he was indicted for felony and cheating and swindling. History repeats itself. The Consti tutionalist, of January 24th, 1853, says of Hebsohkl Y, Johnson : “The whole political life of Judge Johnson has been devoted to the Democratic cause, and he has manfully fought its battles in every field where its principles have been in issue.” That was said in 1853 the same can as truly be said in 1876. It seems that at last an eminent chemist has discovered the preoise pro cess by which a corpse can be converted into a substance that is finer, harder, •and better adapted to withstand the rav ages of time than is the best African ivory, and he is convinced that before many years cemeteries and “cremation temples” will become desolate, and the whole world will petrify its dead. Hebschel V. Johnson received not only the praise of Glascock and the en dorsement of Calhoun, but time and again the confidence of his fellow-citi zens. He has never forfeited his right to the praise, the endorsement, or the confidence. The lawyer and the states men are gone, but the people ace here to renew that confidence, and make him onoe more the Governor of Georgia. In the opinion of Congressman Laxab, “the St. Louis Convention may adopt one of two courses—it ought either to come out squarely against an early resumption of specie payments and in favor of greenback money, and let Governor Allen write the resolution in his boldest hand,- or it ought to pledge itself distinctly to resumption. If it tries to imitate the Republican oourse it will lose.” Mr. Lamar thinks the oouutry has been trifled with long enough. Governor Johnson's reply is charac teristic of the man, and whilo he dis tinctly states that he does not want the office and will not consent to become a candidate for it, be intimates that, as a Georgian, he is ready to do any patriotic work the people may require of him. This is all the people want, and, in our opinion, it will be an easy matter for them to decide, when they meet in Con vention on the second of August, who they prefer for their next Governor. Candidates for the position had better be prepared for disappointment.—Quit man Reporter. 'l’.ib present condition of journalism in NeV 7 York city, as compared with that of any previous time, illustrates and en forces the tondenoy to consolidation and concentration among the newspapers,— to fewer papers in nnraber, of larger circulation, greater cost and greater power. In 1840 there were 18 dalies published in that oity, with only 60,000 Aggregate circulation; now there are but 16 dailies published, with an aggretate circulation approaching 500,000 oopies. Of these present 16, oue is in the hands of the sheriff, another is confessedly dy ing, and two or three more have no suf ficient excuse for living. It is rumored that a cablegram has been received in New York from the fu gitive Gartbt, now in Italy, affirming that Wh. M. Tweed is entirely innocent of the dishonesty with whioh he is gen erally charged. If the rumor is true, then, aeeording to the Radical press in the Blaise matter, the cablegram en tirely exonerates Mr. Tweed from all participation in the ring robberies of New York city, aud Governor Tildbn should at once issue an unconditional pardou to the great "boss," and see that he is recompensed for the sacrifices of his trial and the disgrace of his convic tion and imprisonment. W* publish this morning, a letter signed “ Columbia,” which seems to be intended as a reply to the Chronicle and Semhili *nd “McDuffie.” At present we sre in L'lissfnl ignoranoe of anything we have written whioh calls for a reply. We have not “arrogated” to ourselves the right to interfere with the local affairs of Columbia county J9X eept in so far as they are of interest to the general public. We have opened the col umns of the paper to correspondents who wrote for and against the recent mass meeting, as we open them to cor respondence upon any other snbjeot. This, we believe, is the extent of onr offending. The export movement of American cotton goods to foreign countries, it ia stated, still contiunee on a considerable scale, as compared with previous years since the war. The total number of bales and cases sent out from New York and Boston since January 1 is now 41,- 453, against 20,341 for the correspond ing period of 1875. At the unexampled low prices of these goods abroad a con siderable increase of consumption, it is believed, may be confidentially predict ed at an early day, and a more healthy condition of affairs, as a natural se quence. Tbs proposed flooding of the Sahara Desert is something more than mere talk. Mr. McKenzie, the projector, with an engineering party, is about leaving London for Western Africa, to make the neeeaaary surveys for tuning the waters of the Atlantic into the great desert. He is confident that a canal eight or nine miles long will accomplish the object, and enable the flooding of the low lands of the desert to be accom plished so that Timbnctoo will be brought within navigable distance of the sea. The opening up of a vast trade with the interior of Africa ia the induce ment oflared for carrying out this pro- THE PUBLIC NEED. What the country needs and the peo ple want is pare, honest, incorruptible men in office. They have suffered enough from the misrnle of dishonest knaves and corrupt politicians in the high and in the low places of the Gen eral Government. They have felt in every section of the country the blight ing influences of this misrule. They have seen business stagnating, maun factnres languishing, commerce reduced to its very lowest elements, and they ask and are eager for a change. They want the bright and prosperous Democratic days of the past to come again. Give them the right men—men in whom th-y can qonfide—and they will sweep the Republican party from place and power forever. They will come to the rescue with willing hearts and earnest hands. They will fill "the bloody chasm” with the misdeeds of that corrupt organiza tion, and bridge it over with the records of the glorious past—that glorious past which preceded the war upon the rights of the South and the .Gonstitntion of the country. Then will the darkness of the hoar be dispelled, and brighter days of peace and political honesty light the Union on to a speedy return of its glory and prosperity. THE COLQUITT AND JAMEM ELECTION IN ATLANTA. Last Saturday the city of Atlanta was the scene of a contest as disgraceful as, fortunately for our people, unusual. It was not properly an election; there was no principle involved; the fate of a people or the life of a party was not at stake. It was simply an unseemly scramble entered into by the friends of General Colquitt and of Mr. Jakes for ihe purpose of securing the Fnlton dele gation to the Convention which will meet to nominate a candidate for Governor. Fnlton is the only county in Georgia which selects delegates to a State Con vention by means of what is known as a “primary election.” In every other county publio meetings are held for the selection of delegates. In Fulton polls are opened in the city and country, and delegates representing the different can didates are voted for. The returns from the different precincts are consolidated after the closing of the polls, and the men receiving the highest number of votes are allowed to cast the vote of the couDty. This scheme brings into play all the worst features of an election, while it withdraws every safe-guard from the bal lot box and almost sets a pre mium on fraud and trickery. We publish an account of the last oontest in Atlanta, to which we invite the especial attention of our readers. It is taken from the Atlanta papers, and may, there fore, be accepted as the most favorable statement of the affair possible to* be made. The first move was a descent upon the livery stables, for the halt, the maimed, the blind, the drunk and the lazy mast be taken to the polls in car riages. By concert of action, the Col quitt faction succeeded in engaging every publio carriage. The Jakes fac tion met this check by getting vehioles from Marietta and other points in the country, and some of Mr. Jakes’ friends in the city as sisted their favorite by lending him their private carriages. The second step was to subsidize the bar rooms and barter whisky for votes. The Times says that in several bar rooms “the pre sentation of a ticket was an order for a drink,” and the Constitution published such advertisements as this ; “ Col quitt drinks free to all holding tickets at the ‘No Name ’ Saloon.” The voter for Colquitt or for James was given a free ride to the polls and filled with free whisky until he made up his mind how to dispose of his ballot. Runners were appointed to go after voters who did not take interest enough in the contest to come to the polls without solicitation) Around the polls were stationed a lot of muscu lar and loud voioed canvassers, whose business it was to thrust tickets upon voters and to quarrel with the other side for the possession of a citizen. Of these gentry the Atlanta Constitution says: “They were plentifully supplied “with ammunition in the shape of “ tiokets, and the independent voter “ had these tiokets dropped in his hat, “ stuffed in his hand, or even in his “ month if his hand didn’t happen to be “convenient, and crammed into his “ pockets until by the time he had pass “ed the guantlet and finally reached “ the polls he was almost suffocated.” Trickery of course was resorted to, because there was no law to pnnish any fraad whioh might be committed and neither side wish ed to waste the money that had been expended for the purpose of carrying the oonnty. The Jakes men attempted to vote an unnaturalized Chinaman but Colquitt's friends got more than even by the adoption of a subtler swindle. They bad a ticket printed whioh was a fac simile of the James ticket and which bore at its head the false state ment that the delegates on that ticket wonld vote for John H. Jambs. Then followed the names of the gentlemen who had been selected to represent Gen eral Colquitt in the State Convention. This trick, which the Times de nounces as a piece of “unmit igated villainy,” cost Mr. James some votes before it was detected and exposed, and gave rise to mneb bad feeling. Indeed, during the election, feeling seems to have run as high as if the two candidates represented different parties, and as if the fate of the State, instead of the possession of a fonr thousand dollar office, depended upon the result of the struggle. So disrepu table was this warfare that the Constitu tion said, editorially, Sunday morning : Jp what we say. we do not intimate where the biame teste for the contest of yesterday, nor do we daaiie to disease that question. Bat it is greatly to be regretted that any such con test transpired. The manner in wtycjl Demo crats hare abused Democrats is deplorabi?, and more bitter assaults could hardly have been made upon Ba&etla. The fierce rivalry, too. led to acts on the part of friends of the candidates tending to refieet on the candidates themselves. All along we hare deprecated this struggle on account of its certain intensity and possible results. Harm was certain to oome of it, and we now speak so plainly in order to impress upon )he friends of both parties the propriety of ceasing their personal warfare. The content, however, was not devoid of “humor," and the local chronicle gives an account of what it tenu cue of the “amusing” incidents of the day. 4 Stan was found dead drunk near the polls, and the legal Coroner of the county summoned a jury and held a mock in quest upon the body of the besotted voter. A verdict was rendered that the man “seas dead drunk from the too free use of Colquitt whisky.” After all the fighting and scrambling and frauds and trickery were over, and the free whisky had been drank, the free carriages sent to the stables, and the “amusing" inquests had been drained of all amusement, the ballots were counted, and it was ascertained that Mr. James was Victorians and t&gt Gen. Col qurrr was defeated. This i# a jffijgary election in Fulton county. Every trae friend ot the two candi dates moot feel mortified at the un seemly spectacle of Saturday. Every right thinking person mast aee that it was a straggle from which 90 bopor conld be derived, and one in which both factions were vanqnished. Every Geor gian must feel shame because such a contest has been permitted to take place in the Btate. EX-SEC RETAB Y BENJAMIN. Mr. J udah P. Benjamin, formerly of New Orleans, who is said to be “ the most famous advocate in the English bar at the present moment," is exciting unfavorable comment in London by lending his eminent talents to bolster up the most scandalous procedures, doing for Albert Grant, the London Jim Fisk, what D. D. Field did for his American prototype. The English Jndges, however, nnder their new sys tem, feel relieved from nmch of the ser vility to law and precedent which blinds the bench to justice habitually, and ex press themselves with more blnntness and freedom. They plainly told him, in a recent case, that he was pursuing an “ absurdity,” and, when he appealed to the former equity precedent, “hoped that common sense now prevailed in all divisions of the Court.” In his defense of Grant, Benjamin has played a very neat trick on the Courts. Grant was sued for damages in about eighty cases, in the matter of the Lisbon tramway. A ease was made np for trial, on the issue .of which all the others would depend. But Benjamin declined to defend the case, and walked out of Court, a proce dure which necessitates a year’s delay and the working np of the next case, and so on through the whole eighty, it being contrary to precedent for judg ment in an undefended case to affect a similar case. Lord Coleridge, before whom this case is on trial, is expected to make some rule or comment on this procedure. A CONSISTENT COALITION. A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald says that Governor Cham berlain, of South Carolina, and Sena tor Patterson have buried the hatchet, and the latter will snpport the former for re-election this Fall. Chamberlain has pledged Patterson to redeem the Bine Ridge scrip and the conversion bonds, after which he will be sent to the United States Senate to succeed Rob ertson. A private telegram from Co lumbia states that Elliott and Treas urer Gardozo, both of whom had Sena torial aspirations, are greatly incensed at this reconciliation between the lately antagonistic Republican leaders in South Carolina, Patterson has exerted his influence with the editors of the Nation al Republican, and that paper will no longer attack Chamberlain. The Herald naively adds : “ This information must prove distasteful to those Democratic papers in South Carolina which thought they, saw in Chamberlain the germs of a true reformer.” We presume the in telligence of this coalition will prove “distasteful ” to some of the few Demo cratic presses in South Carolina which have endeavored to believe that Cham berlain is laboring to reform the State government. Others, however, will continue to support the partner of Pat terson just as they have sounded the praises of the participant in the gigantic swindles of a very few years ago.— Chamberlain is but little better than his ally, Honest John, and is infinitely more dangerous. He is a cultivated and oily-tongued adventurer, who has found South Carolina his oyster, and who is determined to perpetuate his power if possible. For months he has been striving to demoralize and disorganize the Democracy, knowing full well that if the white people remain united Radicalism and its twin-brother Rogu ery will be crushed in South Carolina as they have beeu crushed in every other Southern State. Perhaps he thinks his task has been accomplished, and that he oan now afford to throw aside the flimsy mask of reform. COTTON MANUFACTURE AND EXPORT. Ootton factories are being suspended in many parts of the country. All the mills of the Sprague estate, employing 10,000 operatives, are being closed as fast as the stock they have on hand is exhausted. Mills in other portions of the country have diminished the hours of labor, or nnmber of operatives, or closed—the reason in every instance be ing the very low and unremunerative price of domestic goods. At the same time the announcement is made that the ourrent crop will be unusually large and excellent. This condition of affairs of fers but one solution. Here is the cot ton; here are the mills, the labor, the capital, and the latter seek a market that they may use the former. As the do mestic market is surfeited, notwith standing low prices, it becomes the du ty as well as the policy of manufactur ers to seek a foreign vent for their pro duct. They attempted it recently, with considerable success, in England and Frauoe. The effect of that attempt is realized. Turkish, Russian and Egyp tian merchants, who have heretofore been chiefly or altogether supplied by and from England, learning there that American cottons, superior in quality to English, are exported to England for sale, have songht to avoid the English profits, and are now buy ing in New York and other American ports. And very large shipments have been and are being made on American account to Asiatic markets, particularly to China, where Amerioan cottons have always been preferred to English. The receipts of snob remote orders, aug mented by many from South America, has a donble consequence. It reduces the plethora in the market, thus con tributing to a fresh demand for activity and production, when, owing to the con- ditions, new stocks can be laid in at low er rates, and it opens a permanent out let for future fabrications in the very markets we wish to supply—the markets we mnst gain and retain if we are, as we hope, to secure for American cotton gp<?ds that foreign vent that is necessa ry for the domestio fabrication of onr own crop and the concurrent increment of the crop and its manufacture. We do not apeak of the event as anything to be zealously sought. It is already brought to our doors. Tfce very redactions of cost that have followed great i&annfac tnre and have glutted onr own market, have attracted buyers from Asia and Ea;cp£. They are here. The end is being realized. The depression in manu factures and pripes was a necessary pre liminary to this result, and also to the creation of a firmer feeling in the do mestic by which prices will be restored to a remunerative figure. This encouraging condition is net limited to its immediate consequences, {foreign demand for domestic mannfastnres sig u'fies new vitality to domestic commerce; that struggling against as great obstacles as have beset the manufacturers, finds oqe of the chief removed when the manufactures are songht and ordered abroad. The shipments now beiDg made swell tbs profit of foreign bot toms, but in that fast create anew sal} on onr ship yards. They ameliorate the condition of our foreign exchanges, and ; as? beginning to take hold of all those nsee from yhich the fntore is to derive strength. Bon. W. H. Dabney is spoken of as a suitable man to represent the Seventh 1 District ph the next Congress. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 5, 1876. ————— - af * HIGH TO\_ED_ POLITICS. THB CONTEBT BETWEEN COL QUITT AND James. The Primary System-An Edifying Electian- Free C arriage*— Free Liquor—Bogus BaJ laU-Toliiq a China man— Dead Druak from Colqaiu Whisky—The Result—Jamoa Wins. [Atlanta Constitution. [ Both General Colquitt and Mr. James are men of large personal popularity, and both possess many enthusiastic sup porters. The consequence has been a fierce struggle for ttie carrying of Ful ton county. The Carriage Deal. One of the first moves made prepara tory to the conflict of yesterday came from the Colquitt side. It was stated that they had hired all the carriages to be had in the city, and that Mr. James’ friends would have to make their way to the polls on foot. Now this was a point indeed, especially as it has been a time honored custom in Atlanta for candi dates to furnish their constituents with free rides on election days. But the James men were not discouraged. They sent out couriers and laid the surround ing country under contribution in this important particular. Marietta furnish ed four carriages, the country below us subscribed eight, and many private citi zens tendered to Mr. James the use of their vehicles. Consequently, on yes terday had the strength of the candi dates been measured by the number of their carriages it would have been hard to say which was the strongest. The Boene at the Polls. The men who saw the roughest time were the canvassers. Each side had a large number in the field, and they did their duty manfully. They were plenti fully supplied with ammunition in the shape of tickets, and the independent voter had these tickets dropped in his hat, stuffed in his hand, or even into his month, it his hand didn’t happen to be convenient, and crammed into his pock ets, until by the time he had passed the gauntlet, and finally reached the polls, he was almost suffocated. When a squad of voters would approach at a time, one of the canvassers would exert them up and see them safely through the oppos ing crowds. Such cries as “Make way for these James men,” “Hurrah for Colquitt,” “Bring in another horse,” “Fivei dollars reward for a Colquitt voter,” and others of the same nature, which are always received by a crowd as the quintessence of wit, we constantly heard on every side, and if they had no other effect, certainly kept up good hu mor.* About two o’clock the rolling mill employees arrived. As it was not certainly known how they would vote; the cheering was at first faint, but the next instant when a majority of them was seen with James’ tickets, the noise raised by the supporters of that gentle man was almost deafening. An Amhslng Inquest—The Small Boy in Poli- Coroner Kyle was called upon yester day afternoon to hold an inquest over the body of a man found dead—drunk under a tree in rear of the City Hall. He summoned a jury and proceeded to Ihe spot where the said body was found, and at once entered npon an examina tion of >the case. Witnesses were ques tioned as to the facts connected with the unfortunate man, and a whisky bot tle, nearly empty, was found in his coat pocket. This revealed the facts, and after inspecting the contents of the bot tle the jury, through their foreman, ren dered a verdict that the man was dead— drunk, from the too free use of Colquitt whisky. A man was passing along the sidewalk, on • his way to the City Hall, yesterday afternoon, when he was ac costed by a small boy, who asked him if he did not want a James ticket. The gentleman replied, “I’ve already voted for Colquitt.” The boy’s face saddened with a scornful look as he indignantly answered, ’‘Then you ought to die be fore night,” This incident shows the heated condition of the oontest. Du ring the morning some of the James crowd tried to vote a Chinaman, but the Colquitt party couldn’t see it, and he was at once challenged. This produced some little excitement, but it lasted only a moment, and at seven o’clock the polls closed without any manifestations of disorder. After the polls were closed a ticket* was found headed “John’ H. James for Governor.” and containing the names of tfle Colquitt delegates be low. How far this ticket had been cir culated and voted is not known, but the discovery developed a good deal of wrath and some intrepidation among the supporters of Mr. James. Free Carriages—Free Lifiuor—The Work at the Polls—The Colored Vote. [Atlantcf Times.] The friends of Gen. Colquitt and Mr. James were equally zealous and equally sure of victory. Everything was cer tainly well prepared for the straggle when the sun rose yesterday morning. Every livery stable carriage in the city was out with huge placards to invite aft voters to the polls in style. Private vehicles were also out in large numbers. Great wagons, filled with chairs, and driven fonr in hand, rambled along the streets, while the soores of voters they held cheered lustily for the man of their choice. The large supply of car riages in the oity was nneqnaled to the unprecedented demand, and fonr were brought down from Marietta to join the grand caravan. It is said that at sev : eral bar-rooms in the city the presenta tion of a ticket was an order for a drink, and hundreds quaffed of the free inspiration. Never was there more energetic work at the polls. There were about fifty men, with pockets, hats, hands and even mouths lull of tickets, who grabbed every meek citizen as he entered and beset him with such entreaties that had their lives depended on the result no additional zeal could have been mustered. There were tricks, as there always are at Republican elections. Many tickets were circulated with Col quitt's name and James delegates on them, and vice versa. The “Black Horse” ticket was not heard from to any great extent. There was more personal feeling and unpleasant bickering than oonld have been desired. This was found among the men who cannot favor anything or anybody withont damning all who pre sume to qnestion their -infallibility. There were no serions accidents or un pleasant occurrences, with the exception of two incipient fisticuffs, whioh were not permitted to develop. Good humor prevailed among all the better men at the polls, and considering the great en thusiasm, the “free and enlightened Amerioan voters” behaved very well. Some negroes endeavored to vote, bnt were advised against the propriety of so doing. Bogus Tickets—“ Unmitigated Villainy.” We have been shown this device for entrapping unlettered or unwary voters. For ourselves, we have publicly ex pressed no personal choice in the pri mary election in Fnlton county; bnt our duty as a journalist compels ns to lay bare such an outrage as is disclosed in the tickets—printed with the same sort of type and upon the same quality and color of paper—as we give below. (Here follows the two tickets—one the genqine James tioket, the other a fraad, gotten up by the Colquitt men. It stated at the head that* “the following gentlemen wonld vote for John H. James," and then followed (he names of the Colquitt delegates .) We are sure that the gentlemen named on the last mentioned ticket would scorn the prac tice of such a trick, and if by such an artifice they should be chosen to repre sent the people of Fnlton, would “throw up the seals.” We can command no language vigorous enough wherewith to characterize such unmitigated villainy. The Bur Room. Free . Specimen Advertfae - 1 m.du. Colquitt drinks free to all holding tickets, at the No Name. jnne24-dlt Every voter, get your tickets and get a refreshing drink at the No Name be fore yoting. jnne24-dlt Colquitt and James drinks free to all holders of tickets at the jjo Name, fi Marietta street jnne24-det ’ 10,000 drinks to be given away to-day, to all holding tickets, at the No Name, 14 Marietta street. june24-dlt An Election Wnger. [Atlanta Telegram.] 4 wager as follows was laid between a James and a Colquitt man: If CdlqUift beat the rage, a damps man Agreed that he would ride on top of the Rohneijeld hearse at 10 o’olock, Sunday morning, from James’ honse to Brotherton’s cor ner—the Colqnitt man to do the same if 'James carried the day. The loeer will take his ghostly ride at the hoar desig nated this morning. The IlAjt. st / B ,\S ht *® ra counted with the following result: James .J 1307 Colquitt 1 !l’,091 James’ majority. ,J.s 216 There were 116 split tickets in the box, nearly all of #bich were James, and his majority will reach about 300. THE NEXTPRESIDENT. UNCLE SAMUEL WINS THE DAT. The Second Day at St. Loaia—Efforts to Pre cipitate a Vote—Which Fail—The Platform -Scathing Arraignment of Republican Rascality—An Able Paper—A Minority Re port—The Gallant Eqring Never Surren ders—The Platform Adopted —Nominations —Georgia for Bayard—Uncle Samuel Wins in Two Straight Heats. [Special Telegram to tbs Chronicle and Sentinel ] St. Louis, June 28. Most of the morning was occupied in preparation to discuss the platform. The committee was up nearly all night, and it soon became evident that a serious di vision existed on the most vital of all points—the money question. General Thomas Ewing, oft Ohio, was on the Committee—one of the ablest and most eloquent men in the united States, and a devoted apoptlesof gradual resumption of specie payments*’ beneral Ewing had openly declared. wt4he believed to be the true polioy of*ih*l Democratic party, and had o&ji£iHl9MNqMtagaad his opinion that the West would notsupport a candi date who had beeu and was in bitter op position to this polioy. It was well known this morning that the Com mittee had failed to agree upon a plat form up to that time. Governor Tilden’s supporters were anxious that a candidate should be selected to stand upon the platform; the anti-Tilden men thought the platform should be made first. Af ter a good deal of discussion, of which the Associated Presi dispatches will give you the particulars, after much excite ment and no little confusion a solution of the diffiulty was found in the an nouncement that the Committee had agreed upon a report whieh had been turned over to a sob-committee for re vision and putting in shape. Those, however, who knew asserted there would be a minority report and that t]ie trouble was only adjourned, not ended. When the Convention re-assembled (scarcely any one, by the way, having left the ball) the majority report was read aud many of ils points were empha sized by applause. But after that came the minority report* as presented by Gen. Ewing, and never did a conscientious and fearless man acquit himself more admirably than he did. Under ordinary circumstances the minority report would have been adopted by a large majority. But the Southern States cared nothing and knew little of the currenoy question. They only knew that Radical corruption and misrule were grinding their people to death, and they were willing to sink everything in the hope of success. Other wise the minority report would probably have been adopted. As it was the South favored strongly that plank whieh it thought would seoure harmony aud com mand suocess in the coming battle with Radicalism. After the platform came the balloting. On the first ballotthe vote stood: Tilden 403 J Hendricks 133'J Hancock 75 Allen.., 57 Bayard 33 The Georgia delegation gave sixteen votes for Bayard, five fog Tilden and one for Hancock. On the second ballot Tilden made great gains, and before the announce ment of the vote other States changed to him in such a way as to make his nomi nation certain. Georgia on this ballot, knowing how the thing was going, gave Tilden fifteen and Bayard seven votes. It is believed this ticket will win, and, with the exception of the Ohio and In diana men, it gives great satisfaction. The South will give Tildeu a united vote next November. For the Vice-Presidency there is a strong feeling here in favor of making Governor Hendrieks accept the position. If he does not there are four other men who would give strength to the ticket: General Thos. Ewing, of Ohio; Newton Booth, of California; ex-Governor J. M. Palmer, of Illinois, and Henry B. Payne, of Ohio. P. W. St. Louis, June 28. —The Committee on Platform sat until one o’olock this morning, and then adjourned without coming to any conclusion. Serious differ ences exist relating entirely to the finan cial plank. While nothing is officially known, current rumors, well defined, are that the majority favor a plank fabri cated by Mr. Dorsheimer, of New York, which is earnestly opposed by the West ern members, especially Mr. Ewidg, of Ohio. Some of the members doubt their ability to be able to report at the morning session, if at all to-day. The committee was to reassemble at 10 o’clock this morning, but had not organ ized at twenty minutes of eleven. Th e platform is substantially agreed upon, except the financial question, but has not been put in form No reliable sy nopsis of it oan be had, because of the danger of ohanges in the final draft. . Every seat and standing place in the Convention hall is filled. President McClernand called the Con vention to order at fivß minutes after 11 o’olock, introJnoing Father Brady, of St. Louis, who offered prayer. Mr. Campbell, of Tennessee, moved to dis pense with the reading of the minutes. Agreed to. Mr. Young, of Georgia, of fered a resolution that the Convention endorses the reform inaugurated by the House of Representatives in out.ting down appropriations; approves their in vestigations of fraud and congratulates the country on bringing public crimi nals to justice. The Chair decided that the resolution must go to the Committee on Platform- Mr. Cox offered a reso lution that the will of the people is for retrenchment, as expressed in the ap propriation bills, and they ought to be sustained. Referred to the Platform Committee. Mr. Vilas, of Wisconsin, offered a resolution confining delegates' speeches to five minutes; that ten minutes be allowed for presenting each candidate nominated. Mr. Cox, of New York, presented a memorial of the Workingmen’s Central Union, expressing their views and asked that it be made a part of the proceedings of the Conven tion. Mr. Eaton, of Ransas, moved that it be omitted from the pro ceedings and referred to the Plat form Committee. Adopted. Mr. Kelly, of New York, at the request of some of the New York delegates, pre sented a paper signed by many eminent gentlemen who were opposing the nomi nation of Gov. Tilden (applause and hisses). Mr. Jacobs, of New York, made the point of order that this was ont of order. The Chair so decided. Mr. McLace, of Maryland, inquired the or der of business. The Chair said the re port of the Committee on resolutions was not yet made. Mr. McLyne moved that the Convention proceed tq ballot (ap plause). He said there should be no at tempt by the Convention to hasten the Committee on Resolutions or bring any pressure npon them, but the Convention had the dnty to nominate the candi dates as early as possible and he thought they should lose no time in fulfilling that duty. Mr. Woods, of Missouri, of fered an amendment that the Conven tion will not ballot untjl aftef nation pn the report of fhe Committee on Resolu tions. He urged that ho candidates should be elected until the platform is adopted. [Applause.] He suggested the possibility of two reports from the committee. He hoped there wonld be harmony, but it pjdst be haraopy upon principle if spopesa is to be obtained by the unify ef the Convention. Mr. Abbott, of Massachusetts, moved to amend the amendment by a substitute ordering the roll of States to be called for and then proceed to bal lot. Mr. Wallace moved that the entire subject be tabled. Mr. McLi.ne accept of “No,” “No,” greeted the proposition ed Mr. Abbott’s amendment. [Load cries that the declaration of a State’s vote by the Chairman 6f each Relegation shall alone bh'abcepted.) Mr. Wallaoe asked what would be the condition if a motion to table failed. Mr. Oliver replied that the Convention would then come to a vote on the amendments. The Chair here announced that the Committee on Resolutions was" reaify U, report, and the req nest for a calf of States was withdrawn’Without taking a vdtef. The Chair ‘refcoghized Mr.'MSreditß Qh*i*- mah of ttie*(!dmaitfep tut Fiattorm, ifiw aaid tliej h|d on the resolutions; bit* bad referred them to a committee on revision, and were to meet again at one o'clock. Mr. Reman moved a re cess until 2 p. m. Carried. Renting the recess of the Convention, all the delegates and visitors remained in their seats, Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, ad dressing the Convention. The Convention was called to order at 2:15. Judge Meredith, of Virginia, Chairman of the Committee on Desola tions, presented a report, stating that a great many resolutions were presented, all of which had been carefully exam ined find discussed before coming to ah agreement. He then requested Gov. Dorsheimer, of New York, to read the report to the committee. It was read as follows: '• We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the United States, in National Convention assembled, do here declare the administration of the federal Gov ernment to be in urgent need of imme-' diate reform. We do hereby enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention and of the Democratic party in each State a zealouß effort and co-operation to this end, and do hereby appeal to our fellow citizens of every former political Corn vention to Undertake with us this first and most pressing patriotic duty. For the Democracy of the whole country We do hereby reaffirm our faith in the permanency of*"the Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitution of the United States, with its amendments universally scoepted as a final settle ment of the controversies that engender ed civil war, and do here record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of Republican self-government; in absolute acqniesence in the will of the majority the vital principle of the Bepublio ; in the supremacy of the civil over the mili tary authority; in the total separation of Church and State, for the sake alik of civil and religioub freedom; in the equEHty of all ohizens before the just laws of their own enaotsaeitt ; in the liberty of individual conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws ; in the faithful education of the rising genera tion, that they may preserve, enjoy and transmit these best conditions of hu man happiness and hope. We behold the noblest prodncts of a hundred years of changeful history, but while uphold ing the bond of our Union and the great charter of these our rights, it behooves a free people to practioe also that eter nal vigilance whioh is the price of lib erty. Reform is neoessary to rebuild and establish in the hearts of the whble people the Union eleven years ago hap pily rescued from the danger of a cor rupt centralism, whioh, after inflicting upon ten States the rapaoity of carpet bag tyrannies has honeycombed the offices of the Federal Government itself with incapacity, waste and fraud, ih fected States and municipalities with the contagion of misrule, and locked fast the property of an industrious people. In the paralysis of hard times reform is necessary to establish a sound currency, restore the public credit and maintain the National honor.* We denounce the failure for all these eleven years; to make good the promiso of the legal ten der notes which are a changing stand ard of value in the hands of the people, and the non-payment of whioh is a dis regard of the plighted faith of the na tion. We denounce t the improvidence whioh in eleven years of peace has taken from the people in Federal'taxes thir teen times the whole amount of the legal notes, and squandered four times this sum in useless expenses without accumulating any reserve for their redemption. We de nounce the financial imbecility and immorality of that party which dur ing eleven years of peace has made no advance toward resumption; that in stead has obstructed resumption by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income, and while an nually professing to intend a speedy re turn to specie payments, has annually enaoted fresh hindrances thereto. As such a hindrance we denounce the re sumption olause of the act of 1875, and we here demand its repeal. We demand a judioious system of preparation by public economists by official retrench ments and by wise flnanoe, whioh shall enable the nation to assure the whole world of its perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meet any of of its promises at the call of the creditor entitled to payment. We believe such a system well devised, and, above all, entrusted to competent bands for exe cution, creating at no time an artificial scarcity of enrrenoy and at no time alarming the public mind into a with drawal of that vast machinery of credit by which ninety-five per cent, of all business transactions are performed. A system open, public and inspiring gen eral confidence would, from the day of its adoption, bring healing in its wings to all our harassed industry, and set in motion the wheels of commeroe, manufactures and the meohanioal arts, restore employment to labor and renew in all its national source the prosperity of the people. Re form is necessity in the sum and mode of Federal taxation, to the end that cap ital be set free from distrust and labor lightly burdened. ■ We denounce the present tariff, levied upon nearly 4,000 artioles, as a masterpiece of injustice in equality and false pretence. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has impoverished many industries io subsidize a lew. It prohibits imports that might purchase the products of American labor. It has degraded Amer ican commerce from the first to an infe rior rank upon the high seas, ft has cut down the sales of American manufac tures at home and abroad and depleted the returns of American agriculture or industry followed by half our people. It costs the people five times more than it produces to the Treasury. It obstructs the processes of production and wastes the fruits of labor. It promotes fraud and fosters smuggling; enriohes dishon est officers and bankrupts honest mer chants. We demand that all Custom House taxation shall be only for reve nue. Reform is necessary in the scale of public expense, Federal, State and municipal. Federal taxation has swollen from $69,000,000 gold in 1860 to $45Q>- 000,000 currency in lfi7o: oqr.aggre gate taxation from gold in 186 Q to $730,000,000 currency in 1870, or in one decade from less than five dollars per head to more than eighteen dollars per head. Since the peaoe, the people have paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the sum of the national debt and more than tvfipe that snm for the Federal Qovernmeut uloC. We demand a vigorous frugality in every depart ment, and from every officer of the Gov ernment reform is necessary to put a stop to the profligate waste of public lands and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, which hue squandered two hundred iqillion& of acres upon *ailrogdß alone, and out of more then tfiriee that aggregate has dis posed Qf lees than a Bi*tfc directly to tillers of the soil. Reform is nepessary tq qorieet the omissions o{ a RenqtyiGsn Oongress and the errors of opr treaties and our diplo macy which have stripped our fellow citizens of foreign birth and kindred race reorossing the Atlantic of the shield of American citizenship have exposed onr brethren of the Pacifio coast to the incursion of a race not sprung fropj the same great parent stock, aqd iq fact now by law denied citizenship through naturalization, as being neither accustomed tq the tradi tions of a progressive civilization nor exercised in liberty under equal laws. We denounce the policy whioh thus discards the liberty loving German, and tolerates the revi val of the Coolie trade in Mongolian wo men, imported for immoral purposes and Mongolian men hired to perform servile labor contracts, and demand such modification of the treaty with the Chinese empire qr suqh legislalion by Oongress within a constitutional limita tion as shall prevent the further impor tation or immigration of the Mongolian race. Reform is necessary, and can never be effected but by making the con trolling issue of the efeptions,lifting it aboye the false lasqM ipfß *hich the office-haldipgclass qnd the party m power seek to smother it. The false issue with which they would enkindle sectarian strife in respect to the public schools, of which the establishment to support belonging exclusively to the several States and which the Democratic party has cherifchrd from their founda tion and resolved to maintain, without partiality or preferen'db' f<3 any class, sept M fiteed, aiuf without contnbutiog from the Treasury to any 1 the false issue by which they seek to light anew the dying embers of sectional hate between kindred peopleonceurinatnjfilfyearning ed, but now rennitqd ia one indivisible Republic &nd a 'common destiny. Re foMß is necessary' 'in the civiT service. ~ Experience ' proven that efficient, economical cenqu'et ”6t the sovmaimentS 'husirieia is not poasiqre if iU*fciyil SemCft be. subject, to change a< every election, he a r/a brief honor -' Bt !s d ot °* f°r proved competency ***- - ueld for fidelity in the public em ploy; that the dispensing of patronage should neither bp a tax upon the time i a?. nqr tins instrument of their ambition. Here again professions falsified in the performance attest that the party in power can work out no prac tical or saintary reform. Reform is necessary even more in the higher grades of publio service—in President, Vice-President, Judges, Senators, Repre sentatives, Cabinet offioers. These and all others in authority are the people's servants. Their offices are not a private perquisite. They are a publio trust. When the annals of this Republic show the disgrace and oensure of a Vice- President, a late Speaker of the House of Representatives marketing his rul ings as a presiding officer, three Sena tors profiting aaeSetly by their votes as law makers, five Chairmen of the lead ing committees of the late House of Representatives exposed in jobbery, 9 late Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances in the publio aoeounts, a late Attorney-General misappropriating pub lie funds, a Secretary of the Navy en riohed or enriohing friends by per cent ages levied off the profits of contractors with his Department, an ambassador to England oensured in a dishonorable speculation, the President’s private Sec tary barely escaping conviotion on trial for guilty complicity in frauds on the Revqpue, a Secretary of War impeached for high crimes and confessed misde meanors, the demonstration is complete that the first step in reform mast be the people's choice of honest men from an other party, lest the disease of one po litical organization infeot the body politic, aud thereby making no change of men or party we oan get no ohange of measure and no reform. AU these abases, wrongs and crimes, the product of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the Re publican party, erbate a necessity for re form confessed by Republicans them selves. But their reformers are voted down in Convention and displaced from the Cabinet. The parties and mass of honest votes is powerless to resist the eighty thousand offioe holders, its leaders and guides. Reform can on ly be had by a peaoeful, civil revolution. We demand a change of system, a ohange of administration, a change of parties, that we may have a ohange of measures and of men. The reading was frequently interrupt ed by applause. The denunciation of the resumption aot and demand for its repeal was reoeived with especial favor. At the conclusion, Mr. Dorsheimer said the Committee had adopted and en dorsed, though not as a part of the plat forih, a resolution—whioh he read— endorsing the action of the House of Representatives in cutting down appro priations. He exhorted them to firm ness. Also a resolution as to the just claims of soldiers, sailors and widows and orphans. Gen. Ewing, of Ohio, took the plat form and said that at the request of several members of the Committee, he presented the minority report, recom mending the striking out of. the follow ing olause in the majority report, to-wit: “As such a hindrance, we denounce the resumption clause of the aot of 1875, and we demand its repeal.” He pro posed to substitute therefor the follow ing words ; “The law for the resump tion of specie payment on the Ist of January, 1879, having been enaoted by the Republican party without deliberation in Oongress, and with out discussion before the people, and being both ineffectual to se cure its objeot and highly injurious to the business of the country, should be forthwith repealed.” General Ewing moved and Mr. Eaton, of Kansas, sec onded,that the amendment thus suggest ed be made. General Ewing proceeded to state his objection to the olause pro posed to be stricken out, It denounced only one clause of the resumption act—- that one fixing the time for resumption, thus by implication leaving all the rest to stand as unobjectionable. The con struction given to this will be that the Democratic party wants resumption earlier than 1879. Another objection is that the resolution as reported palters with the question of whioh it treats. It commends the party to a reduction of greenbacks and the perpetuation of the National Rank system. Leaves Secretary of the Treasury perhaps with the power to issue gold awaiting the day of resumption, a policy to which Western DmMracj are almost unani mously opposed. The resolution of the Oommittee supports by implication a bill for which the Democrats are not re sponsible, a measure whioh never re ceived a Democratic vote. Here time was called and much confusion ensued, in consequence of efforts to seonre more time for Ewing. The Ohair ruled that as the objection was made the time oould not be extended. Ml- Dorshei mer appealed for tfie withdrawal of the objection and it was withdrawn, and by unanimous consent. General Swing was authorised to proceed. Anoth er soene of oonfusion ensued. Mr. MoLane, of Maryland, re newed his objections to hearing Gen. Ewing further. Finally Ewing thanked the Convention for the kindly spirit manifested towards him* and said he would trouble them no further. [Cries for Swing, orjei, order.} Mr. Dorsheimer said he proposed right here to make a Straight Issue be tween hard and B °ft money. [Applause ] By thut WC Will stand or fall. If you want soft money, give your votes to the most distinguished advocate, but if you want to give us any show tU parry the hard money States, stand hj the plat form as presented- [ApplauseJ This is a compromise in whioh the East has yielded so much as to have already elioited a strong protest numerously signed by the Eastern States. On this we stand or fall. If you adopt the amendment of the gentleman from Ohio then good bye to your hopes, qom mittee’s report, however. Hives us a live- 7 chance of supcass-'>%o?cKhe demanded the call of the States on the queatmu Mr. Yoorhees, of Indiana, took the platform. He said Mr. Dor sheimer's issue was a false issue. As stated by him there is no issue of hard or soft money. They were gll m fa,yor 61 resumption as S qqn W healthfully practicable, Wt ftesiredlt earlier d e Wd itJWf some private, improper Purpose. Re earnestly opposed any at tempt at forced resumption. The law had been inforce two years and the coun try is two per cent, farther from a gold standard than it was when the law was passed. The national law qf legislation is not unwigq. R will soon cover the pa* cent, gap betweep gcjld and paper. Ret us leave the question to these natural Referring to Mr. Dorsheimer, he said the West had followed the leftd of New York too long already uud it w now time to assert the power of the mighty West. [Applause ]. Mr. Watterson, of Kentucky, urged the policy of supporting the Committee Re port, signed by twenty-nine pf its mem bers. After careful CfWnycieration and asserting % impolicy of overthrowing that qy pie fluted action of the Con vention in fts condition of excitement by the thirty-two and no\ by fhe eight, who have prqdqqsJ ficre this dangerous question, fie moved tpe previous ques tion. Ah O WW scene of great' ensqed, many delegates asking to be hegref god °h e from Fennsyvania bitterly denouncing the gag law and insisting on the freedom of debate. After mneb confusion the States were called on Ew ing’s motion to strike ont and substi tute. The Chairman announced the vote, ayes, 219; nays, 515, a0 the amend ment was rejected. The vote recurring on the adoption of the platform the announced the vote—yeas, 651: nays, 83; so the report of the Platform Committee was adopted Nominations then In order, and the roll Of the Slates was called QoL Bayard; AR- Reon Abbott, of New Jer sey, nominated Mr. Parkot; Mr. Francis Kernan, of New York, nominated Mr. Tilden. The first ballot stood : Allen, 56'; Tilden, 403*; Parker. 18; Hancock, 75; Bayard, 27; Hendricks, 133*. The second ballot stood: Allen, 54: Tilden, 467; Parker, 1$; Hancock, 71; Hendricks, TJuurman, 2, lowa ohaoged 2ft for Tilden. Illinois ehang eq 84 for Tilden ana for Hendricks. Missouri chahged 20 for Tilden and 10 for Hendricks. At the Vtriiie of the second ballot, for the announoemqnt frog* the Chair, the (Jtm vimtiom and gave lopg and toons cheers for ten' The ex citement and hoise almost drowned the music by the. imffd. Yariomi other jounced, changes nwd great : ü b D .¥^ l went solid for Tildes, Pennsylvania moved to wk® fr unanimous. Indiana aeood -i Peanaylranta’s motion to make the nomination unanimous and it wua adopt ed. A motion to adjourn till W o'clock to-morrow was carried o'clock. WASffIHOTOg, Jjuue il— Dispatches reaching here Rom the North, and South express enthusiastic satisfaction. The politicians hero who have closely exam ined the platform pronounce ijb a master piece. The jpe U| general that h£r. $2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID. Hendricks will accept- the Vice-Presi denoy. St. Louis, J une 28. —The Convention adjourned to nine o’olock to-morrow morning, without aotion on the Vice- Presidency. SKETCH OP THE DEMOCRATIC CANDI DATE. Governor Tilden was born at New Lebanon, in the oonnty of Colombia and State of NcW York, in the year 1814 the year which raised the fortunes of the great Napoleon. Young Tilden en tered oollege in his eighteenth year. He had not been long at Yale Oollege be fore his health gave way, and obliged him to leave. , After some rest he was enabled to resume his studies, and in, 1834 entered the Uuiveraity of New York, where he completed his academic education. He then entered the law office of the late John W. Edmunds, in the city of New York, where he enjoyed peculiar facilities for the prosecution of his favorite studies of law and politios. Upon his admission to the bar, Mr. Tilden opened an office in Piue street, in the oity of New York. In 1844, in anticipation and preparation for the eleotion which resultedjn making James K. Polk President and Silas Wright Governor of the State of New York, Mr. Tilden, in connection with John L. O’Sullivan, founded the newspaper called the Daily News. In the Fall of 1845 he was sent to the Assembly from the oity of New York, and .while a member of that body was eleoted to the convention , for the remodelling of the constitution of the State, which was to commenoe its sessions a few weeks after the Legis lature adjourned. Iu both of these bodies Mr. Tilden was a conspicuous authority, and left a permanent im pression upon the legislation of the year, and especially npon all the new consti tutional provisions affecting the finan ces of the State and the management of its system of canals. The defont of Mr. Wright in the Fall of 1846, and the cool ness which had grown up between the friends of President Polk and the friends of the late President Van Buren resulted fortunately for Mr. Tilden, if not for the country, iu with drawing his attention from poli tics and oonoentrating' it upon his profession. He inherited no fortune, but depended upon his own exertions for a livelihood. Thus far his labor for the State, or in his profession had not been lucrative, and, despite his strong tastes and pre-eminent qualifications for political life, he was able to discern at that early period the importanee in this country, at least, of a pecuniary inde pendence for the snecessfull prosecu tion of a political career. With an as siduity and a concentration of energy whioh have oharaoterized all the trans actions of his life, Mr. Tilden now gave himself up to his profession. It was not many years before he became as well known at the bar as be bad before beeu known as a politician. His business de veloped rapidly, and though he con tinued to take more or less interest in political matters, they were not allowed after 1857 to interfere with his profes sional duties. Sinoe the year 1858 It ia aafe to say that more than half of the great railway corporations north of the Ohio and be tween the Hudson and Missouri rivers have been at aeme time his clients. The general misfortunes whioh overtook many of these roads between 1855 and 1860 oalled for some comprehensive plan for relief. It was here that his legal at tainments, his unsurpassed skill as a financier, his unlimited capacity for con centrated lahor. his constantly increas ing weight qf character and personal in fluence found full activity, and resulted in the reorganization of the larger por tion of the great net work of railways, by whioh the rights of all parties were equitably protected, wasting litigation avoided, and a condition of great de pression aqd deapofidenoy in railway property teplaocd by an unexampled prosperity. Till the war came. Governor Tilden made every effort to avert the rebellion. When his efforts, oombined with those of other prominent patriots, had proved abortive, his convictions of duty were perfectly deoided and clear. They were to maintain the integrity of our terri- MR? miproiuacj uf fibu cuuuti tqtianal authorities. He bad been edu cated in the sohool of Jackson, and had been a diligent student of the lessons taught by the nullification controversy of 1833. He had carefully and profoundly the telamon of the Federal and §tnte Governments, and Of the Citi zens of those Governments. He had thqs early formed perfectly clear and settled opinions, about whioh his mind never vaoillated. During the Winter of 1860-61 he attended a meeting of the leading men of both parties in the oity of-New York, to consider what measures were neoessary and practicable to avert an armed qmliaion between what were then termed the free and the slave States. To the North he urged reconciliation and forbearance, appre ciating, qs ho did, more clearly than most of those aronnd him the fearful and disastrous consequences qf a civil war, whatever might prove its ultimate result. To the South h& urged a defer ence to the will of the majority and a respect for the provisions of the Federal Constitution, within whioh they would be sqrc of adequate protection for them selves and for their property ; but he warned them that outside of the .Con stitution they could expect protection for neither. When the war aid come Mr. Tilden associated himself with and was the private adviser of Mr. Dean Richmond, then at the bead of the Democratic party of that State,‘and who was accustomed bn all important ques tions to visit Mr. Tilden in his retire ment and seek his counsel. At a meet ing held at the honse of Dix just after the first call qf fVjosidont Liu coln for 75,000 Mr. Tilden was present participated j B the discus siqnq took plaao. He then and there expressed the opinion that they were on the eve of a great war, and maintained that instead of 75,000 troops Mr. Lincoln should have oalled out at least 500,000, h&Jf fo r j m _ mediate service and Um Other half to be put in camps qf instruction and trained for impending exigencies. Unhappily that generation, had seen SO little of war and fyuf such limited means of compre hending Ike rapidity with which the war spirit* WO© lighted, will spread among a people, that it was not competent to ap preciate the wisdom of this advice, which, if adopted, would probably have prevented the necessity of any further increase of military foroq. To Seoretaiy Chase and his Mr. Tilden insist ed fhe war ought to be carried on unde*, a system of sonnd finance, which he did not doubt the people would cheer fully sustain if the Government would have the CO wage to propose it. At a laterperiod °* the war ho was invited by ! the Government at Washington to give his advice as to the best methods for its farther conduct. He said to the Secre tary of War :• “You have no right to expect a great military genius to come to your assist ance. They only appear qneb itt two, or three centuries. You will probably have to depeud upon tha average military talent qf thb country. Under such oir cqmstanocs jour only course is to avail yourself of your numerical strength and your superior military resources result ing from, your greater progress in indus trial art* and your greater producing capacities. You must have rese< ves and concentrate your forces on decisive points, and overwhelm your adversaries by numbers and re serves.’ 7 His advice was not taken, but he had the satisfaction, within a year after it was given, of hearing the Secretary of War acknowledge its wisdom and lament his inability to secure & a&ption. With the peace to, Mr. Tilden the most impotent ppjfitical labor of his llfq Wfh the assistance of Charles G’Conor, who followed the numbers of that band of conspirator* with all his usual vigor and ackwneaa Wrtil it was not only broken up, but its leading mem bers scat*wed tc> the four quarters of the globe, he assailed and evert brew the combined Republican and Democratic Ring Which roled mid mined New York, Thm Xlg v its origin ia an aet pass ed by the Legislator© of the State of NtW XriRW JB6T, in connection with the chart w of that year, which provided that but six persons should H votei for o?hTw^°k audtweJ * e nnwL °f ‘he Re- party caucuses saonia be feitoted. At the succeeding sossiqii W the Legislature their term of offcea was extended to six years. This ! gave, a Board of Supervisors, consisting of six Republicans and six Democrats, to change a majority of which it was ne oessary to have control ot the primary of both of the great national and Stafe parties for years in succession —a series of ooineidenoea whioh rarely happens, ia a generation. &ariy in September he issued a letter to seventy-six thousand Democrats, re viewing the situation and calling UDon them “to take a knife and cut the oan oer ont by the roofs." But before the meeting of the convention an event hap pened which could not have been fore seen, but which was pregnant with the most important oonseqnenoes. To the eternal honor of the Democratic party of the city and State, on the issue thus made up by Mr. Tilden they gave him their cordial and irre-istible support. L h it r ®K U “"""helming, and not only ohanged the city representation in the legislative bodies of the State, but >“ lU “ oral effect, crushed the “ring ” Mr. Tilden was one of the delegates chosen to represent 'he oity in the next Legislature. In deference to the views j of his principal ooadjntors, Mr. Tilden devoted the six weeks’ interval between his eleotion and the meeting of the Legislature to the prosecution of its in vestigation in the oity departments and in preparing the vast mass of aoourate information whioh was the basis of neap iy all the judioial proofs that have since been employed fluccessfuly in bringing the members of the “ring” to justice or driving them into exile. ? ave , hia ohi6f attention dunng the session of the Legislature to th , e . Promotion of those objects for - d t 0 80 there > ‘he re ™™t^ e)udl ? laryand khe mpeaoh th,e creatures who had acquired the control of it under the Tweed dy nasty. Mr. Tilden Ad thus by his bold a °ts, ruade himself prominent in the and recognized as the man to lead it m the State. Prominent friends of reform urged him to acoept, the nomination for Governor. They ?L ttld . he could be nominated without dif ficulty and elected triumphantly, and in his triumph the great cause of adminis- t r , a ri efo i r i m Would reoeive impulse n,„ tiTT and^ r ? pag u ate ik not only over M m,? State \ but over the Union. ?? r, f , Tlden ultimately oonsented to take the nomination for Governor He was nominated and elected, and whatever lessons or eloquenoe could be in . b, f majorities were not wanting to lend their eolat to his T r ‘r P A h 'Ti Mr ;, T il deri ’ 8 Pinrality over k he Republican candidate, was 53,315. Mr. Dix had been elected two years previously by a plurality of t Mr. Tilden is now in the six ty-third year of his age. He is five feet ten inches m height, and he has what physiologists call the purely nervous emperamen*, with its usual aooompani ment of spare figure, blue eyes and fair complexion. His hair, originally ohest *? k ’P a rtially silvered with age. At the Utica Convention resolutions were passed presenting his name as a candidate for the Presidency, and re qqe&MUg the delegates to vote as a unit* THE FESTIVE GAME OF FARO IN NE VA UA. [ Virginia City Gonretpondence of the San Fran oitco Port.] . A popular delusion prevails that faro ik conducted “on the square ” ia Vir -1 ginia. The fact that the owners of the games live, as a general thing, in about as handsome houses as can be seen in the oity, and that they are them elves behind fast horsea on G street and the Geiger grade afternoons, counts for nothing with the gambling Oomstooker, who invariably has his “system” nearly perfected, and is sure to “bust the game ” before long. This ardently longed for trium.jh is occasionally achieved. Within the past six months no less than four games have been cleaned out. They were, however, com paratively poverty stricken concerns, having but $2,000 or $3,000 capital. Most of the banks now running have a backing of from $60,000 to SIOO,OOO, and one institution has $400,000 as a founda tion. The largest winning reported so far this year was made by a teamster, who got away with over $5,000, and left the bank a wxeek. On the other hand the losses have been extremely heavy. One well known gambler here, who would pass anywhere for toe respectable father of a prosperous family, has rid himself of $15,000 at faro during the last four mouths. This professional does nbt confine his operations solely to the green otocn. Otnro ai*. utuuftis ago lln, wnn one or two others, laid claim to soma ground near the O. and O. shaft, which the California was supposed to own, and began sinking for the bonanza. Maokey & Fair didn’t approve of this, naturally, but the jumpers were resolute and known to be handy with a pistol. Suddenly our friend, the respectable gambler, bloomed out in gorgeous apparel, sported anew plug hat and oane, and rejoioed in pat ent leathers. The difficulty had been “settled,” and now the $16,000 lies ip. the cash drawers of the several faro banks in town. Appropos of this gen tleman, I heard a good little story the other day. He and some other profes sionals had been losing frightfully, and some desperate step was necessary to raise the wind. A neat plot was hatched. Free drinks are a feature of every gambling room. A waiter takes the or ders from the players and brings in the liquors and cigars on a tray. The waiter of the game which this wrecked gambler and his companions had resolved to vic timize waa heavily bribed to join the schema. DriDks were oalled for, the dealer among the rest asking for re freshment The unfaithful waiter passed the tray to the dealer in such a manner as to oover the cards, and the gambler deftly removed the box and substituted another with a cold deck in it under cover of the tray. In about ten min utes the conspirators won $1,400, know ing what card would come up. When about two-thirds of the deck had been ; dealt the dealer smiled in a sickly fashion and remarked ; “Well, boys, yon may as well hand over my box; I see yon have got me this time. There was no anger or hard words. “Anything to beat the game ” is considered allowable, and the gam blers walked off with their spoils in peace. The profits of the faro banks are large and certain. The theory i B that “splits are the only percentage of the game over the player. The advantage is calculated to be between twelve and thirteen per cent. A “split,” I may B ay, for the enlightenment of yonr non garni bling readers, occurs when two cards of the came dcuomination—eights, for in- ont of the box in sncces slqn. Half the bets npon the card are I appropriated by the dealer. The troth is, however, that the gambler has little or no chance when the owner of the game so willa.it. Attached to nearly every bank is a light fingered geniha who knows how to deal a “hogging game.” When a man is winning heavi ly, and the changing of cards and deal ers (in which manoeuvres the gamblers— who as a class are very superstitious place much faith) do not bring a change of luck, this skilled individual is given charge of the game. By his manipula tion of the eards, the unsuspecting plav er is readily robbed of bis coin The Nironk percentage is another thing upon which the games rely, and with reason. A seasoned gamster confided to your correspondent, the other day, that a game which he and one partner con ducted for eleven years cleared in that time over $500,000. One of the two banks with which Gold Hill is blessed olears regularly, every month, $5 0f fitu h °, a T age Cosm ü ßt °oker insulted when one who is not to the man pky aUaro 4< "* ** get fair have a da % mail af ter the Ist of July. A Democratic Club was organized at redgewav on the 17th instant Colonel •fames H. Rigjq addressed the citizens present. James Q. Davis was elected President, and the delegates were chosen r? ‘he County Convention. A resolu tion of thanks was tendered to Colonel iwon. h" M ‘ B ° ykin aving Vjeea prevented by pressing private affairs Ke^ha* 1 “r) 88 ® ou ? ky 9, hairmr - n of khe cr f ß - oapt " in w - l - has been chosen Ohairman pro ; Pr . eparat , ,0 “ 8 made for the dalTnJnly 0 ° f dabs on sale , A?, kllo hy Pauls, a colored man, was lt4 -*y stabbed at Mr. Eatman’s store, on Black river, Georgetown, last Sat urday, by John J. Blakely, u white man, from the effects of which he died on Snnday. Both parties are said to have been nnder the influence of bad whisky at the time. Rnmors are afloat that certain politi cal individuals in Georgetown have con spired to besiege and attack the resi dence of Job Mazyck, a quiet and inof fensive oolored man, because he has the temerity to shelter nnder his roof Wm. H. Jones, (alias “Bed Hot”) the ex-Sen ator from that county. Will there be a renewal of the civil war which shook Georgetown to the centre two years ago ?